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Hashtag Neil the seal has over 50 million views on TikTok. If you’re on social media and love wildlife then I’m pretty confident you’ve seen videos of Neil the seal playing with traffic cones, galumphing across roads, or napping on people’s lawns. While these antics have taken the internet by storm, wildlife officials and experts are actually pretty alarmed. In Tasmania, the Department of Natural Resources and Environment AND the Marine Conservation Program have repeatedly told people to keep themselves and their pets at least 20 meters or 65 feet away from Neil. As you can see in these videos… people aren’t listening. According to Time Magazine, there have been at least three instances of people harassing Neil by poking and prodding him with sticks and even touching him… leading wildlife officials to urge the public to report potential acts of animal cruelty. This has resulted in several interventions to relocate Neil and try to keep the seal’s location private. As cute as he is, Neil the Seal is a wild animal.
On the other hand, there are absolutely a lot of positive things about Neil the Seal. Videos of him are fun and most of them are harmless interactions. They’ve brought a lot of interest in southern elephant seals who are a threatened species in Australia. Since the 1950s, there has been an unexplained decline in the subpopulations of southern elephant seals in the Pacific Ocean. The reasons for the decline is currently unknown. Thankfully the population is currently considered stable and we want to keep it that way. We want Neil to grow up into one of those massive bulls who has a harem of 40-50 females so that the population can continue to rebound.
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